Conflicts and Compromises
This action of leaving a union is what many Southern states threatened to do if their ability to own slaves was not respected.
What is secede?
In response to several policy failures, many anti-slavery activists formed this new political party, not of "Free Soil," but with a vision of a "Republic" free of new slave states.
What is the Republican Party?
This famous battle was a dramatic loss for the Confederacy, and featured Pickett's charge, where Confederates charged across an open field and most were killed by Union forces.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The siege of this southern city on the Mississippi river was engineered by General Grant and led to the city's surrender in only six weeks.
What is Vicksburg?
This compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state with the condition Maine be added as a free state as well.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This fort in South Carolina, one of the last few still controlled by Union forces, was attacked by Confederate forces and sparked the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This battle featured the "bloodiest day" of the Civil War, and more than 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed or wounded on that day.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
President Lincoln suspended this, or the right to be charged with a crime and have a hearing before being jailed, to help quash riots in the north.
What is habeus corpus?
This famous address by Abraham Lincoln after a famous battle had Lincoln proclaiming that the deaths of the Union soldiers there weren't in vain.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The Compromise of 1850 had passing this act as its central goal, which forced northern states to help return escaped slaves back to their southern owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed the residents of territories, including the new territory of Kansas, to decide whether they would allow slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This was one of the first major battles of the Civil War, and featured General "Stonewall" Jackson showing his talents and the Union seeing the war would be long after all.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
Congress in the north established this type of tax, which taxed people's earnings, to help pay for the war effort.
What is income tax?
This is the village where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, and marked the end of the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
Many Americans before the Civil War supported the idea of leaving the question of slavery up to this idea, that people had the right to decide for themselves whether slavery would be legal in new territories.
What is popular sovereignty?
This Supreme Court decision, one of the most infamous of all time, held that slaves were not citizens, but property, and didn't have the right to sue.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This battle in Virginia was one of the Union's worst defeats and showed the strength of Robert E. Lee's talents as a general as outnumbered Confederates mowed down wave after wave of charging Union troops.
What is the Battle of Fredericksburg?
This regiment of black troops was famous for bravely attacking Fort Wagner and losing almost half their numbers, but fought bravely.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
This Union general was sent by General Grant into Shenendoah Valley in Virginia, and was tasked with destroying everything in their path.
In 1848, antislavery members of both parties founded this new political party whose main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories.
What is the Free Soil Party?
This group of pro-slavery activists battled anti-slavery forces and crossed into Kansas to vote illegally in favor of pro-slavery candidates.
Who are the Border Ruffians?
This battle showed General Grant's talents as Union forces, surrounded and beaten back to the Tennessee River, stood their ground until reinforcements arrived and beat back the Confederates.
This group of northerners opposed the war to keep the South in the Union.
Who are the Copperheads?
This Union general was famous for his capture of Atlanta and his march to the sea, in which he tried to cripple the South's ability to continue the war.
General William Tecumseh Sherman